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Depth psychology is a broad term that refers to any psychological approach examining the depth (the subtle or unconscious parts) of human experience. It includes the study and interpretation of dreams, complexes, and archetypes, and it encompasses any psychology that works with the concept of an unconscious mind.[1]
Depth psychology provides a frame of reference for exploring underlying motives and approaching various mental disorders, with the belief that these frames of reference are intrinsically healing[vague]. It seeks the deep layer(s) underlying behavioral and cognitive processes — the unconscious.[vague]
The initial work and development of the theories and therapies by Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler and Otto Rank that came to be known as depth psychology have resulted in three perspectives in modern times:
Psychoanalytic: Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott (among others)- Object Relational Theories
Adlerian: Adler’s Individual psychology
Jungian: Jung’s Analytical psychology and James Hillman’s "Archetypal psychology"
Those schools most strongly influenced by the work of Carl Jung, a 20th-century Swiss psychiatrist who in his Analytical psychology emphasizes questions of psyche, human development and personality development (or individuation).[citation needed]
Jung drew from world religious and mythic traditions to make sense of the spontaneous productions of the human psyche. He termed the patterns he identified archetypes.
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